Dangers Faced
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
My heart is filled with bitter thought,
My eyes would fain shed tears;
I have been thinking upon past,
And upon future years.
Years past — why should I stir the depths
Beneath their troubled stream ?
And years that are as yet to come,
Of them I dread to dream.
Yet wherefore pause upon our way ?
Tis best to hurry on ;
For half the dangers that we fear,
We face them, and they're gone.
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on July 15, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 387 |
Words | 74 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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